3:00 PM - Piano Dedication ConcertRob Elfline will present a concert to dedicate the congregation's new Yamaha Conservatory piano and will include works by Bach, Haydn, Grieg, Gershwin and Ellington.Free and open to the publicSt. John's Lutheran Church, 4501 7th Avenue, Rock Island, Illinois

Volume 8, Issue 20 - February 7, 2011

ACTL

Greetings from the Center for Teaching & Learning.

I want to continue the survey of cognitive development theories that I've been developing in previous newsletters. To date I've summarized

If you're familiar with Perry's work, then you know that he worked primarily with males, mostly from Harvard. Useful work, no doubt, but perhaps not the most representative group when trying to understand a typical college student.

Following up on Perry's work, Belenky, Clinchy, Goldberger and Tarule produced Women's Ways of Knowing in the mid 1980's. In their study they interviewed women of different ages, classes, ethnic and educational backgrounds. They discovered and described five "epistemological perspectives:"

silence,

received knowing,

subjective knowing,

procedural knowing and

constructed knowing.

You can find a useful summary here. The full text is available in the Tredway Library.

I plan to continue this historical survey in the weeks to come. If you do find any of these resources helpful, and they influence what you do in your course design or in your classroom, I'd love to hear about it!

In hopes that winter term has been a successful one for you (and your students!), have a productive week ten.